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Originally Posted by JManc
^ Chicago was huge and its economy pretty diverse. Even then. It wasn't really a one industry town like other Great Lakes cities. It certainly fell on hard times. As did NYC...total shithole when i was a kid but they had momentum to weather the storm. Very few RB cities were as successful as Pittsburgh which had the Eds and Meds to capitalize on. Plus I'm sure, competent leadership.
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It's done better than some, a little worse than others. But it hasn't successfully pulled out of decline like the post-industrial big northeast cities (or almost any other non-Midwest big city). It's only doing better relative to the worst Rust Belt cities (Detroit, StL, Cleveland).
For examples of Midwest cities that are not Rust Belt: Minneapolis, Columbus, Madison, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor.